En cuanto a la controversia, en el artículo de IGN ellos indican en el último párrafo lo siguiente:“These aren’t the greatest games of all time, these aren’t the games ranked by review scores, and we have no idea how they’ll factor into our timeless Top 100 list. These are the Top 100 Modern Video Games as decided by a group of modern IGN editors we locked in a room to help you recover from your coma.”